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Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS
tesseract 5.3.2
XSane 0.999
YAGF 0.9.5
Epson Workforce WF-4835 printer/scanner

This set up works together to a point. Clicking the Scan button in YAGF causes XSane to start up, scan the document in the scanner, and display the scan in the left window of YAGF. But when I click the Recognize button in YAGF, no text appears in the right-hand window and an error message says that the eng.traineddata file cannot be found.

The location is defined in these ways:

  • In the YAGF Settings > OCR and Languages, Path to Tesseract Data Files is defined as /usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata/.
  • $ sudo export TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata/
  • The following lines were added to the ~/.profile, ~/.bash_rc, and ~/.bash_profile files: export TESSDATA_PREFIX=/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/5/tessdata/

Can anybody suggest why YAGF/tesseract can't find the eng.traineddata file, hiding in plain sight?

muru
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Hedley Finger
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It seems that YAGF has a problem with the path for languages

you can copy files from

/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/x.00/tessdata/

/usr/share/tesseract-ocr/x.00

In my case x=5

https://adventuresinlinux.wordpress.com/2020/03/20/tesseract-ocr-set-up-issues/

Daniel Perez
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